10/9/08

"John Murtagh, a Republican Yonkers City Councilman who is running for State Senator. 'Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family,' he said in a statement for the McCain campaign.

"Murtagh was referring to a 1970 firebombing of his family's upper Manhattan home, when his father, New York State Supreme Court Justice John Murtagh, was presiding at a trial of Black Panther radicals.

"The Weather Underground was suspected in the attack, although no one was caught."